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Framework for model-based design of mullti-agent systems
Janoušek Vladimír, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DITS FIT BUT)
Kočí Radek, Ing., Ph.D. (DITS FIT BUT)
Mazal Zdeněk, Ing. (DITS FIT BUT)
Zbořil František V., doc. Ing., CSc. (DITS FIT BUT)
system modelling; agent systems; model-based design;
programming languages
When developing a Multi-agent systems (MAS) we need, among others, to bulit agent architecture together with some decision algorithms and communication protocols. Before such systems are realised in a real world, we should sufficiently test and verify their behaviour. The presented text describes a new approach to building artificial agents and MASs using the methodology of model-based design. In this methodology some models are used for testing the behaviour of particular elements as well as for testing the behaviour of the system as a whole - in both cases by simulation. Our aim is to develop a tool that would allow model-based design of systems with artificial agents. For this reason we have been building an application called Tool for Multi-Agent System Simulation (T-Mass) which is aimed at model-based development. As a part of the tool we also developed a language called Agent Low-Level Language (ALLL), by which agents' behaviour is controlled.
@ARTICLE{FITPUB8917,
author = "Franti\v{s}ek Zbo\v{r}il and Vladim\'{i}r Janou\v{s}ek and Radek Ko\v{c}\'{i} and Zden\v{e}k Mazal and V. Franti\v{s}ek Zbo\v{r}il",
title = "Framework for model-based design of mullti-agent systems",
pages = "140--162",
journal = "International Journal of Autonomic Computing",
volume = 1,
number = 2,
year = 2009,
ISSN = "1741-8569",
doi = "10.1504/IJAC.2009.024746",
language = "english",
url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/8917"
}